Quotes by Baldwin, James

Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from >>

An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty >>

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biolog >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that stil >>

And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the so >>

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His godly ones. [ >>

Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, which is the only fact we have.

Baldwin, James